aseprite/aseprite
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 19.0
- age_days: 4397
- days_rel: 8
- days_push: 8
- n_releases_24m: 23
Adoption not part of the score
39019 stars · 8763 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Aseprite is an animated sprite editor and pixel art drawing tool for creating 2D game assets, with layers, frames, onion skinning, and palette control. It exports to sprite sheets, GIFs, and PNG sequences, and includes a CLI and Lua scripting for asset pipeline automation.
Use cases
- draw pixel art sprites for games
- create 2D frame-by-frame animations
- export sprite sheets and texture atlases
- make animated GIFs from pixel art
- edit tilemaps and tile patterns
- automate sprite conversion in a build pipeline
- design retro 8-bit and 16-bit style graphics
When to choose
- you need pixel-perfect drawing tools like Pixel Perfect stroke and shading ink
- you are authoring animated game sprites with layers and tagged animations
- you want sprite sheet, GIF, or PNG sequence export
- you need scripting or CLI automation for asset generation
When to avoid
- you need general-purpose photo or vector image editing
- you require high-resolution non-pixel-art digital painting
- you need a free open-source build for commercial use without purchasing a license (source is available but the license is custom)
Facets
application · maturity stable
image-processing animation cli gui graphics media windows cli pixel-art sprite-editor spritesheet gif-export onion-skinning tilemap-editor lua-scripting texture-atlas game-development macos linux desktop
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite · fetched 2026-08-28 · eb2aa4c13cbc
- homepage: https://www.aseprite.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · f00c582a648b
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 99ebf6f77637
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs/new-layer · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7b963e7c57d2
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs/copy-layers · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6d50a10ef6fe
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs/move-layers · fetched 2026-08-29 · 80fc7ec3f325
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs/layers · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9974f15e4b20
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs/new-frame · fetched 2026-08-29 · 79c9ffd7d13a
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs/copy-frames · fetched 2026-08-29 · 79999fd32fa4
- site_page: https://www.aseprite.org/docs/move-frames · fetched 2026-08-29 · 39c57fe81265
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| aseprite/aseprite | main | 99 |
For agents
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